Rights Respecting Schools is an award by the charity UNICEF. The award is for schools that are working towards children’s rights becoming an embedded part of their school ethos. It teaches children about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and enables them to be Rights Respecting Global Citizens and advocates for fairness and social justice in our local community, our country and across the globe.
Rights Respecting Schools
This year, our Rights Respecting Ambassadors have decided to work as committees. We have committees that each run a different working group around school to further extend the role of the steering group:
Every class in school has discussed, agreed on and designed their own class charters. These consist of five articles that the whole class agree to focus on and incorporate into their day to day lives. The children have discussed what both the adults (Duty Bearers) and the children (Rights holders) have to do to ensure the rights are met and have included these on their charters. Here is an example:-
On Tuesday mornings, assemblies are held by SLT or Mr Rice where they have the opportunity to discuss and share new articles with the children. The children really enjoy these assemblies as they get the chance to discuss and explore new articles and see how the convention is followed in countries around the world.